In 1 Samuel 8 the word describes the time when Samuel was told by the Lord to harken to the peoples voice to give them a king.
He said they have rejected Me/the Lord.
But Samuel warned Israel of what would happen. That the man would rule over them. He would appoint a police state to rule over them. He will take your fields and vineyards and give them to His servants.
Now we have seen this very reality in both our Government, and in the church. Evil men take what is not theirs and give it to their “boys”.
I know the Lord teaches us to humble ourselves and we will be lifted up. I found out something very interesting about men. The Lord has shown me to bow myself before men with vision who proclaim him. Now we all know that every vision is not pure. We also believe, that most visions have mixture. But if you bow before a called “Brother’s” vision, it will bring about a response.
To make this clear let me give you two examples.
The First Response:
I was a pastor and went to a church fellowship to seek out connection and help. When I participated in one of their home fellowship meetings, one of the brothers, fell at me feet and washed them. I was truly speechless as I was humbled before the Lord.
The Second Response:
A man who claimed Apostolic Authority, was with me in a service and I felt lead to bow my knee to Him for his call before God. It was not long that that man’s heart was revealed as being agenda driven, and for his own glory. Had I not bowed to him, I imagine I would have been fooled and followed him instead of following God’s true path for my life.
I have no desire to be someone’s boy. I already have a father. He is God.
Another false:
Another thing that happened to me much later was along the same lines. I was in a new fellowship for a time, and was committing to that fellowship and pastor, but in the very act of humbling myself before that ministry, its agenda was revealed and I found that control and pride was the driving force of that ministry.
That pastor told us not to take up the chairs in the worship center if we were not going to work for her.
In humbling myself I was lifted up, but not with the proud. For pride goes before the fall.
We really have no king but Jesus in this Kingdom thing!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Temptation
RESISTING TEMPTATION
"SO LONG as we live in this world we cannot escape suffering and temptation. Whence it is written in Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare."[3] Everyone, therefore, must guard against temptation and must watch in prayer lest the devil, who never sleeps but goes about seeking whom he may devour, find occasion to deceive him. No one is so perfect or so holy but he is sometimes tempted; man cannot be altogether free from temptation."
Thomas Akempis, from: "An Imitation of Life" in Chapter 13
"SO LONG as we live in this world we cannot escape suffering and temptation. Whence it is written in Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare."[3] Everyone, therefore, must guard against temptation and must watch in prayer lest the devil, who never sleeps but goes about seeking whom he may devour, find occasion to deceive him. No one is so perfect or so holy but he is sometimes tempted; man cannot be altogether free from temptation."
Thomas Akempis, from: "An Imitation of Life" in Chapter 13
Separation
I have seen the separating of the wheat and the chaff in these past seven years. Most people I know who have gone through the Lord's chastening in this time have sadly forsaken former levels of faith, and have been taken by the hopelessness that is pervasive in this hour.
For sure there is much to be concerned about. For the most part our government has sold us out, in the wall street bail outs. The Federal Reserve Bank is the most evil institution in the world. Our government will answer before God, for its oppression of the citizen.
In these years, I have seen many who were in my life... go. Most through outright betrayal, and the separation brought forth in that. When people call you their "brother", they have an obligation to go through the trial with you.
The wheat and the chaff have been separated. Those who do not love you enough to be your friend in trial do not love you at all. Yet you may call them friend for they are being used to propel you into your destiny.
Because Christ lives in we who are filled with His Spirit, we shall suffer the same rejection that he suffered. Yet he called Judas, "Friend", in his very act of betrayal.
Those who spoke evil of you and separated from you in the past years, cannot walk with you unless they agree with you. (Amos 3:3) Don't look back. We are in a new season. If some come back, and no doubt the true will, it must not be with demands. They must repent unto the Kingdom. The Kingdom message is this: Repent for the Kingdom of God (His righteousness, peace, and Joy, in His Spirit) are at hand.
So long as you are humbled before Jah, you can expect and proclaim a true restoration of the miracles of God in this hour. The one miracle I have seen in my life is the miracle of casting out of Demons. I have seen a few Physical healings in my ministry. We expect this year to be a year of more miracles then we have ever seen.
If your friend, brothers, and loved ones, cannot go into the miracles with you. Go without them. Jesus is the miracle worker. It is done.
So be it!
For sure there is much to be concerned about. For the most part our government has sold us out, in the wall street bail outs. The Federal Reserve Bank is the most evil institution in the world. Our government will answer before God, for its oppression of the citizen.
In these years, I have seen many who were in my life... go. Most through outright betrayal, and the separation brought forth in that. When people call you their "brother", they have an obligation to go through the trial with you.
The wheat and the chaff have been separated. Those who do not love you enough to be your friend in trial do not love you at all. Yet you may call them friend for they are being used to propel you into your destiny.
Because Christ lives in we who are filled with His Spirit, we shall suffer the same rejection that he suffered. Yet he called Judas, "Friend", in his very act of betrayal.
Those who spoke evil of you and separated from you in the past years, cannot walk with you unless they agree with you. (Amos 3:3) Don't look back. We are in a new season. If some come back, and no doubt the true will, it must not be with demands. They must repent unto the Kingdom. The Kingdom message is this: Repent for the Kingdom of God (His righteousness, peace, and Joy, in His Spirit) are at hand.
So long as you are humbled before Jah, you can expect and proclaim a true restoration of the miracles of God in this hour. The one miracle I have seen in my life is the miracle of casting out of Demons. I have seen a few Physical healings in my ministry. We expect this year to be a year of more miracles then we have ever seen.
If your friend, brothers, and loved ones, cannot go into the miracles with you. Go without them. Jesus is the miracle worker. It is done.
So be it!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
From Ps 19: Lesson 2 The TESTIMONY of the Lord is sure:
The Testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
The Testimony of the Lord is His Truth.
When the Lord gives testimony to something, it is His truth that He speaks. The Scripture is full of the Truth God shares with His people. When our Lord says something, it is important for all men to listen and obey. For His word shall not fail.
To base our lives on any other word than the Lord’s is to find ourselves on shifting sand. All Philosophies, or Psychological theories that do not rest on the truth of the bible, are lies.
The Testimony of the Lord is His Truth.
When the Lord gives testimony to something, it is His truth that He speaks. The Scripture is full of the Truth God shares with His people. When our Lord says something, it is important for all men to listen and obey. For His word shall not fail.
To base our lives on any other word than the Lord’s is to find ourselves on shifting sand. All Philosophies, or Psychological theories that do not rest on the truth of the bible, are lies.
Wait on the Lord:
This is a message for my ministry sons.
In the days of the new Church one man was so holy as to cause a conviction that brought about his stoning.
His name was Stephen. Stephen was stone because his words were so true, that they who were embraced the prevalent lies of that day, could not bear to let him live. Stephens’s words were the very oracles of God.
Today, as in the days of the first church, a man’s total dedication to the Lord will lead him to be shunned by the status-quo church and the world. Truth is dividing factor in men’s relationships. To love truth may even get you killed.
If you’ve never been the one shunned for being a bearer of the torch of truth, you will probably not understand the things I speak of. The political and religious climate of Stephen’s day was one, which was oppressive to anyone who did not get on board with the way things were being done by their leadership. This oppression was either by the dictates of Romans, or by the Jewish leadership.
Today the same forces oppress the true believer. The whorish church entangled in relativism and psychological seduction, hates they who stand for the pristine clarity and absolutes of the bible. Today’s government and financial system, hates they who stand against its lies.
Solomon wrote mighty words. He knew the whole duty of man was to Fear God and keep His commandments. Men in leadership often want praise and worship for their actions. In this day, if you fear God, you cannot support nor condone the evil dictates of church or government.
Our government, both church and political is full of men who have been advanced beyond their ability to lead. In deed, it is my presupposition that no man governs well without a clear understanding of God’s word. What it took Solomon a whole life to understand was, man can only be a success, by being obedient to God.
Men, who have success without first having the victory of good character, are the worst kind of leadership a people can endure. Our present day immaturity in leadership has caused the crises we face as Christian people and as a nation. Everything our young president has done has caused more trouble for this nation.
The problem is that before we elected this rebel with a cause to the White House, we threw away the skillful teacher from our churches.
In Isa. 3 the Lord’s present judgment on the church and modern man is outlined clearly. He takes away the skillful, and gives boys in their stead to lead.
More then ever in time we need men who are true elders in leadership. The qualifications I see lacking in our present church are spelled out as requirements for holding a priestly leadership role in the Older covenant:
Exd 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
To change our nation we need new leadership. We need true elders. This must happen in the church before it ever happens in the world. But the church’s attitude toward this scripture is mostly to deny it and the young almost without exception see no need to minister a week in their father’s robe before they take up their own mantle.
This father’s heart has long been toward the youth called to leadership. But they have seldom listened to my message, which is simply: “Repent unto the kingdom”.
Stephen was a young man. But the scripture gives testimony of his life and purity. Surely no man would despise him for his youth, for he was honorable. To be ready to receive honor in the kingdom is not something that you get because you said a sinner’s prayer. Honor is to be given to them who it is due.
The point of this is that Stephen was honored of God, because he was righteous, and yielded to God and to those whom watched over his soul. Stephen was not working to take something from someone he did not deserve. He was rather consumed in doing his Lord’s will.
Act 6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Act 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
It was a man who was devoted who carried Stephen to his burial. Great lamentation was offered, for they knew they had lost much in Stephen’s death.
Act 8:2 And devout men carried Stephen [to his burial], and made great lamentation over him.
Act 11:19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
At that time the climate against the work of the young church grew so great, that the believers were scattered. So the truth was advanced by the scattering of those who believed.
And yet the greatest accomplishment of Stephen’s life may have been that Paul saw a man who had faith in God. Stephen’s truth, converted Paul.
Act 22:20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Every young man and woman must see that Stephen’s lack of a high position did not keep him from God’s best.
For the Lord himself stood in honor of this man’s life and death. Selah
Young believer, God has a time for you. Do not push yourself ahead, but wait on the Lord, and see that in every situation, you strength shall be renewed.
Psa 25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Psa 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it].
Pro 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
In the days of the new Church one man was so holy as to cause a conviction that brought about his stoning.
His name was Stephen. Stephen was stone because his words were so true, that they who were embraced the prevalent lies of that day, could not bear to let him live. Stephens’s words were the very oracles of God.
Today, as in the days of the first church, a man’s total dedication to the Lord will lead him to be shunned by the status-quo church and the world. Truth is dividing factor in men’s relationships. To love truth may even get you killed.
If you’ve never been the one shunned for being a bearer of the torch of truth, you will probably not understand the things I speak of. The political and religious climate of Stephen’s day was one, which was oppressive to anyone who did not get on board with the way things were being done by their leadership. This oppression was either by the dictates of Romans, or by the Jewish leadership.
Today the same forces oppress the true believer. The whorish church entangled in relativism and psychological seduction, hates they who stand for the pristine clarity and absolutes of the bible. Today’s government and financial system, hates they who stand against its lies.
Solomon wrote mighty words. He knew the whole duty of man was to Fear God and keep His commandments. Men in leadership often want praise and worship for their actions. In this day, if you fear God, you cannot support nor condone the evil dictates of church or government.
Our government, both church and political is full of men who have been advanced beyond their ability to lead. In deed, it is my presupposition that no man governs well without a clear understanding of God’s word. What it took Solomon a whole life to understand was, man can only be a success, by being obedient to God.
Men, who have success without first having the victory of good character, are the worst kind of leadership a people can endure. Our present day immaturity in leadership has caused the crises we face as Christian people and as a nation. Everything our young president has done has caused more trouble for this nation.
The problem is that before we elected this rebel with a cause to the White House, we threw away the skillful teacher from our churches.
In Isa. 3 the Lord’s present judgment on the church and modern man is outlined clearly. He takes away the skillful, and gives boys in their stead to lead.
More then ever in time we need men who are true elders in leadership. The qualifications I see lacking in our present church are spelled out as requirements for holding a priestly leadership role in the Older covenant:
Exd 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [such] over them, [to be] rulers of thousands, [and] rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
To change our nation we need new leadership. We need true elders. This must happen in the church before it ever happens in the world. But the church’s attitude toward this scripture is mostly to deny it and the young almost without exception see no need to minister a week in their father’s robe before they take up their own mantle.
This father’s heart has long been toward the youth called to leadership. But they have seldom listened to my message, which is simply: “Repent unto the kingdom”.
Stephen was a young man. But the scripture gives testimony of his life and purity. Surely no man would despise him for his youth, for he was honorable. To be ready to receive honor in the kingdom is not something that you get because you said a sinner’s prayer. Honor is to be given to them who it is due.
The point of this is that Stephen was honored of God, because he was righteous, and yielded to God and to those whom watched over his soul. Stephen was not working to take something from someone he did not deserve. He was rather consumed in doing his Lord’s will.
Act 6:5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Act 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
It was a man who was devoted who carried Stephen to his burial. Great lamentation was offered, for they knew they had lost much in Stephen’s death.
Act 8:2 And devout men carried Stephen [to his burial], and made great lamentation over him.
Act 11:19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
At that time the climate against the work of the young church grew so great, that the believers were scattered. So the truth was advanced by the scattering of those who believed.
And yet the greatest accomplishment of Stephen’s life may have been that Paul saw a man who had faith in God. Stephen’s truth, converted Paul.
Act 22:20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Every young man and woman must see that Stephen’s lack of a high position did not keep him from God’s best.
For the Lord himself stood in honor of this man’s life and death. Selah
Young believer, God has a time for you. Do not push yourself ahead, but wait on the Lord, and see that in every situation, you strength shall be renewed.
Psa 25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Psa 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it].
Pro 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Thank you Lord for you are Worthy of all Praise!
Isa 25:1 O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things; thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth.
Isa 25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Our praise is the atmosphere in which the Lord brings our deliverance from the powers of defenced cities.
Thank you Lord for you are worthy of all praise!
Isa 25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Our praise is the atmosphere in which the Lord brings our deliverance from the powers of defenced cities.
Thank you Lord for you are worthy of all praise!
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